Extent: ii, 185 leaves : parchment ; 164 x 114 (134 x 96) mm
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Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment. i2, 1-1510, 1610−1, 1710, 188, 193 (singletons), 202, 214 (last is pastedown), lacking one leaf after fol. 148 (the first leaf of quire 16). Minimally decorated catchwords. Modern pencil foliation skips fol. [139] and [146] and so reaches 183 instead of 185, but used here for reference. Layout: 1 column, 8 staves. Square notation on a four-line red staff. Script: Written in rounded Gothic, with seventeenth-century additions in black. Red rubrics. Decoration: Fol. 111: 2-staff-high blue initial with purple filigree beginning the hymnal; elsewhere, initials alternate red or blue. Origin: Written in France in the second half of the fifteenth century, probably for the use of a Franciscan house; the offices of St. Francis, St. Clare, and St. Anthony are prominent in the manuscript, and the version of the Office of the Dead found here is typically used in Franciscan sources. There is an effaced inscription inside the front cover.
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